Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Joseph Joachim’s Hand

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Eduard Jakob von Steinle (*1810 — † 1886)

Joachim’s Hands (Pencil Sketch)

Eduard Jakob von Steinle

The Violinist

Note the similarity in bow hold to that of Joachim’s niece and sometime pupil, Jelly D’Aranyi:

Jelly D’Aranyi (1893-1966) 
by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume (1877-1944)
oil on canvas, 1920s?
35 5/8 in. x 28 7/8 in. (904 mm x 733 mm)
Given by Evelyn M. Jowett, 1984
National Portrait Gallery, NPG 5735

Eduard von Steinle (* 2 July 1810 – † 19 September 1886) was a prominent Austrian-born painter and printmaker associated with the Nazarene movement, which sought to revive spirituality and sincerity in Christian art. Born in Vienna, Steinle spent formative years (1828–1833) in Rome among leading Nazarene artists, whose influence shaped his lifelong artistic vision.

After returning to Vienna, Steinle settled in Frankfurt am Main, where he became a central figure in the German Romantic and Nazarene schools. His major commissions include frescoes for the chapel of Castle Rheineck, historical paintings in Frankfurt’s Hall of the Emperors (Kaisersaal), and extensive cycles in churches and cathedrals along the Rhine, such as the Cologne Cathedral and Strasbourg Minster.

A master of monumental fresco and religious panel painting, Steinle produced over a hundred works on sacred themes and numerous cartoons for stained glass. He also excelled in secular and literary subjects, such as his illustrations for Shakespeare and Brentano. From 1850, he served as professor of historical painting at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt, influencing a new generation of artists including Frederic Leighton. Renowned for his graceful compositions and poetic vision, Steinle remained a key figure in 19th-century German art until his death in Frankfurt. 

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oachim commissioned the Villa Joachim at Ernst-Grein-Straße 6 in Aigen bei Salzburg in 1876. The architect is said to be Valentin Ceconi, who also designed the Villa Trapp. The vacation residence is three stories high, with a four-story tower. Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann were among the guests in the house, and it is here that Brahms and Joachim worked together on Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77. The building is currently under Denkmalschutz (historic preservation protection).

Joseph Joachim

Portrait by John Singer Sargent (1904)

From The Sphere, London, 24 August, 1907

Richard Lucae (1829-1877), Architect

oseph Joachim commissioned the Villa Joachim from Richard Lucae, director of the Berlin Bauakademie, when he was 40 years old. It was built in Berlin near the von Arnim residence, In den Zelten 10 — Beethovenstrasse 3. It later became the residence of Fürst von Hatzfeldt. On July 6, 1919, the house was dedicated as the home of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. The building was taken over by the government in 1933, and went through a variety of uses until it was destroyed by bombs on November 22, 1943. It was eventually cleared away in 1950.

Lucae Richard (1829-1877), Villa Joachim, Berlin (1871): Perspektivische Ansicht. Tusche aquarelliert auf Papier, 17,50 x 30,80 cm (inkl. Scanrand). Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin Inv. Nr. 46201.

“Joseph Joachim’s villa, built in 1871-72 to designs by Richard Lucæ, was in Tiergarten, with a main façade standing back from the street and fronting the corner of Beethovenstrasse and In den Zelten; the floor plan was inscribed in a square having the diagonal as its main axis. The villa was geometrically distinct, composed around a large music room. The exactness of the detailing and the thinness of the façade conveyed the impression of a cardboard model. And yet in the actual composition and the compression of the large temple front motif of the central section, despite all points of contact with classical revival, there is a tension that places the building in a period full of change and ambivalence.” — Fredric Bedoire, The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture 1830-1930,KTAV Publishing House, 2004, p. 232.

Richard Lucae (1829-1877), Wohnhaus Joachim, Berlin. (Aus: Architektonisches Skizzenbuch, H. 132/3, 1875) Perspektivische Ansicht von der Hauptseite
Druck
Stich auf Papier 26,6 x 35,1 cm Inv.-Nr. B 2557,14

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Villa Joachim: Floor Plan

Wohnhaus Joachim, Berlin. (Aus: Architektonisches Skizzenbuch, H. 132/3, 1875)

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Magnus Hirschfeld Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
Dedicated July 6, 1919 in the Villa Joachim

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The bombed-out building, 1943

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Joseph Joachim: Carl Günther, Berlin W., Behrenstrasse 24, prior to 1850

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Der Salon für Literatur, Kunst und Gesellschaft, (Bd. I), Julius Rodenberg (Hrsg.), Leipzig: A. H. Payne, 1873.

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Ferdinand David: Atelier August Brasch, Lindenstrasse No. 7, Leipzig

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